1.Quick Beginning

Growing up, I've had no experience or knowledge at all of farming or gardening. In elementary school, I remember flipping through black and white pictures of the great depression and seeing the floods of cotton. More on history of the countless fields of cornrows, the large fields of land that would be used to grow crops to sell and trade. My parents didn't really talk much about their experience working on the field back in their home country Laos, but I never really asked either. My mother liked to plant flowers near our front door to make it look pretty, but the bugs and dirt kept me away. I couldn't understand why people enjoyed it so much since it was time consuming, back breaking, heat pressing, and not to mention boring. Gardening was never something I had particular interest in.

I liked looking at nature and the calming magical presence it possessed. I believed it to be as something that has been here and will always be here, often times a missed presence in the city. As I grew older, I started to become aware of the dire situation our planet became twisted in with the realities disposing one time use plastics, melting ice bergs, extinct species and global warming. But I only knew the basics of the problem, this made it easier for me to avert my eyes in the other direction as our world continued to crumble. As I started my journey to becoming a more honest person with myself, this became a topic that I wanted to become more educated on. This summer, I wanted to try gardening for myself and see what kind of experience I'd have, what I'd learn, what I'd feel.